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Monday, September 15, 2014

This just in from Morgan Barker, an instructional designer at Humboldt State:

Hello Staff & Faculty,

I would like to personally invite you to campus sessions centered around the topic of mobile learning. The eLearning department will be holding a monthly 2014-15 Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) session. Come join us -grab a cup of coffee and a croissant, during the session.

Sessions will run like an open mike forum - the perfect venue to start an academic discussion, ask questions, share your mobile lessons or learn from the campus community.

Fall Session Dates/Times - BYOD Mobile Learning Sessions

Friday, September 19th

Theme - Facilitate Classroom Use - mobile lessons, all disciplines

SH 117 9-10am

Friday, October 17th

Facilitate Collaborative, Content Sharing Elements, all disciplines

SH 117 9-10am

Friday, November 14th

Facilitate Field Journals, all disciplines

SH 117 9-10am

More Information - What is Happening at HSU with Mobile Learning?During Spring 2014 the College of eLearning facilitated a semester-long Faculty Learning Community (FLC) on mLearningthat created a fun and safe environment in which faculty collaboratively explored, applied and shared mobile technologies and pedagogies to enhance student learning. Take advantage of these resources:

Cannot make these sessions? We will continue the use of
#mobileflc and our tagboard mentioned above. This is a great way to see
the conversations and add relevant content.

More and more events like this will be happening here as they are in the rest of the country. I am really interested in how these tools can change how students learn. I was very skeptical at first because when the iPad first came out, I saw it only as another consumption device and I associated "mlearning" with proprietary platforms. It is a different world now - the web has gotten to be a much more creative place to be since the dawn of Web 2.0 and it is really worth looking all of the ingenious uses of networks and even the simplest of tools. These events are the follow-up events that grew out of the mLearning Faculty Learning Community that Kim Vincent-Layton and Morgan Barker led last year - I highly recommend this and if you are on campus, please stop by.

About Me

I am an instructor and education consultant. I am interested in open education resources, open textbooks, online teaching and learning, course development, and Connectivism. I have also taught English at all levels both face-to-face and online.